One of the most common question I get asked is, “Can I use Windows Server Failover Clustering (WSFC) for SQL Server Reporting Services?” The primary intent behind this question is high availability. And when high availability is a requirement for a Microsoft product, the first thing that comes to mind is a WSFC. SQL Server Reporting Services […]
In a previous blog post, I talked about the new SQL Server 2016 Availability Groups Load Balancing of Read-Only Replicas feature (I know that’s a mouthful but it’s how I understand the concept.) I explained how the precedence rules in defining how the read-only workload is balanced across multiple readable secondary replicas using nested parenthesis. One […]
One of the most annoying practice that I’ve learned ten years ago when I was a data center engineer is change management. Change management is a formal process that defines a set of procedures and steps to manage all changes, updates, or modifications to hardware and software (systems) across an organization. My personal definition of […]
Christmas and New Year have just gone by. You may have stories about how you celebrated the holidays – the sumptuous meals shared with all of the family members, the conversations around the fireplace, opening gifts on Christmas eve, etc. Ours is a bit different than usual. Because, on the day before Christmas, we were on […]
In a previous blog post, I talked about the possibility of having unexpected SQL Server database backups that can affect your disaster recovery strategy. You certainly don’t want to be caught off-guard when that happens. I’ve provided a very simple use case of how it can happen – and it did happen to me a […]